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| A day in the life – Fraser Howard, principal virus researcher, Sophos |
 Posted by SecExtra on March 04th, 2008
6am: Woken either by clock radio (FiveLive) or youngest daughter, whichever makes sufficient noise first. Shortly afterwards I wander downstairs and call our two dogs. Time for their morning walk. After a quick shower I grab some breakfast, before driving to the office.
8.30am: Arrive at the office. While logging on, fetch a cup of tea (Earl Grey, weak). I work from the office for the majority of the time. After dealing with any email that needs my attention, I try to spend a little time reviewing various mailing lists, blogs and other …
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| Have You Ever Been Mis-Sold Security |
Posted by Jason Hart on March 03rd, 2008
Information security does not need to be complicated in order to be robust, nor does simplicity equate to an inferior defence. So, have you been mis-sold security?
A lot of the hyperbole stemming from many info security vendors suggests that, in order to be secure, you’ll need to re-mortgage your company premises to upgrade to the biggest, shiniest IT security infrastructure. The simple fact of the matter is that securing business-critical information, be it customer details, financial records or strategic data, boils down to one thing – access.
Aside from the technological argument, an equally important consideration to make when strengthening IT …
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| Are you covering your back end? Tips on securing your storage network |
Posted by SecExtra on March 03rd, 2008
We had a chance to speak with Steve Murphy, UK Managing Director over at Hitachi Data Systems about security concerns when working with data on a storage network. Steve has kindly put together a brief guide on how to make sure your own systems are secure.
The storage network is now of the utmost importance to any enterprise; not only does it hold essential data, the lifeblood of any organisation, it also provides the capacity for running business-critical applications and services. Unfortunately this makes the storage network a potential target for malicious attacks …
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| Google is lending its servers to spammers |
Posted by Jason Hart on February 27th, 2008
The spammers are at it again by exploiting the web email services of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and other companies to send spam and bypass regular junk filters.
In recent weeks you may have seen some spam arriving that looks like a reply or response to an email that you sent. This is not just a formatting ploy to get you to try and read the email, in reality it’s the next clever move by mass email senders.
Essentially the spammers are registering a large number of online web mail accounts with the major ‘trusted’ online providers …
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| BitLocker, FileVault, dm-crypt, and TrueCrypt all hacked |
Posted by SecExtra on February 25th, 2008
9 Students have released a significant new research result. They show that disk encryption, the standard approach to protecting sensitive data on laptops, can be defeated by relatively simple methods. They demonstrate their methods by using them to defeat three popular disk encryption products: BitLocker, which comes with Windows Vista; FileVault, which comes with MacOS X; and dm-crypt, which is used with Linux. The research team includes J. Alex Halderman, Seth D. Schoen, Nadia Heninger, William Clarkson, William Paul, Joseph A. Calandrino, Ariel J. Feldman, Jacob Appelbaum, and Edward W. Felten.
Their site has links to the paper, an …
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